Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orson Scott Card

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

Orson Scott Card

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

You feel the electricity and the energy. We are giving something to them -- our gifts -- and they are giving something back to us -- their appreciation. And it's a beautiful exchange. That's why I'm a performer.

Robert Kiyosaki

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Features of the night sky that make it beautiful are really drowned out.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

Paul Hornung

Every year we take two or three people in. This year we took in Reggie White. It was really incredible, it was a beautiful ceremony. And all the guys that played under Lombardi were in this group and we raise a lot of money for charity. It's really worked out good.

Charles Manson

Everything is beautiful if you want to experience it totally.

Exceptionally beautiful cards, as well as some humorous ones, and photos of couples from the early years in Lincoln County make this a charming and surprising display.

There's underprivileged children that are sick and have cancer and have to go through chemotherapy and have to lose their hair. By giving them my hair they would get real hair and not fake hair. And I was blessed with beautiful hair.

The response has really been quite amazing. This music speaks to many 25- and 30-year-olds. They've found it very beautiful and uplifting.

Francis Coppola

There was a little bit of tittering when the young boys were in bed, partly because they were such beautiful kids. But of course, brothers have slept together in beds for hundreds of years.

Richard Turner

There's going to be a very large park there, much bigger than just the waterfront walkway, ... The garden is already there, so that helps. It was the site of the evacuation center and it has a perfect view of downtown Manhattan from that site. It will honor not those who died and those who worked there, but everyone who came off that ferry that day. It's a beautiful site for a lasting memorial.

Yadier Molina

There's not much room there. But we'll see how that (plays). It's a great view, a beautiful view of the city.

There's nothing more beautiful than New York City in the snow,

Is the Coliseum positioned between two beautiful buttes like Sun Devil Stadium? ... If you can't be intellectually stimulated by (ASU's beauty), you don't have a pulse.

Janet Baker

I still call it just to hear her voice, ... We will never see her beautiful smile again, never hear her wonderful laugh. I hope Hillary doesn't miss me as much as I miss her.

What a world of difference. The kid just took over the game. We had possession of the game, controlled the tempo of the game and he made some beautiful passes to our forwards.

Leo Tolstoy

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness! A beautiful woman utters absurdities: we listen, and we hear not the absurdities but wise thoughts

We lost a lot of beautiful buildings to urban renewal, ... The uniqueness of these buildings is the character and charm of the community. They'll never build factories like that again.

We went in there last summer to Cliff Lake and had a really good time -- good swimming, good fishing, warm water, beautiful scenery and a nice peak to summit where you can see the whole country. We'll hike five or six miles the first day, go over Devil's Peak and spend the next night in the Sky Lakes Basin, then hike five or six miles out. If you haven't seen Sky Lakes, this is a good one to see.

We will no longer get to see Michael's face, his beautiful blue eyes. We will no longer have holidays together as a whole family.

Douglas Adams

David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in the couple of days we were there sorting out our travel arrangements was awful. It was just the tourist area, i.e., that part of Bali which has been made almost exactly the same as everywhere else in the world for the sake of people who have come all this way to see Bali.

Dorothea Lange

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Dorothy Allison

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Doris Lessing

We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints.

Doris Lessing

Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, "How could you have believed that?" because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.

Donna Summer

I don't care if I'm beautiful; I don't care what I am on the outside. It isn't about the outside.

Donna Tartt

She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no less beautiful for that; beautiful now in a way that less excited my senses than tore at my very heart.

Donna Tartt

And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun strikes raindrops at a certain angle and throws a prism of color across the sky—so the space where I exist, and want to keep existing, and to be quite frank I hope I die in, is exactly this middle distance: where despair struck pure otherness and created something sublime.

Donna Tartt

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

Donna Tartt

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.

Donna Tartt

What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?